Hørup Hav
Coordinates: 54 ° 53 '24 " N , 9 ° 55' 12" E
Hørup Hav ( German : Höruper Haff , also Hörup-Haff ) is a northern tributary of the Flensburg Outer Fjord , just a few kilometers southeast of the Danish city of Sønderborg ( German: Sonderburg ). It separates the main part of the Danish island of Als ( German Alsen ) from the peninsula Kegnæs ( German Kekenis , Danish formerly Kajnæs ) belonging to the island and offshore to the south . The peninsula is only connected to the island itself in the extreme east by a very narrow land connection, only a few dozen meters wide - the Drejet natural dam. The lagoon initially runs to the northeast, forms a knee in the north and then runs to the southeast. On the north bank of the knee is the municipality of Hørup Sogn , after which the water is named, with a marina in the town of Høruphav . At the southern tip of the Kegnæs peninsula is the 1896-meter high lighthouse Kegnæs Fyr , which was built in 1896 and can be viewed and climbed from May to September.
The lagoon is about 1.5 km wide. It is about 4 km from its confluence with the Flensburg Fjord to the knee at Høruphav, and another 9 km from there to the Ostend. It is deep and forms a natural harbor that can accommodate large ships. Before the First World War , the German liner SMS Wörth (draft 7.4 m) and the battle cruiser SMS Moltke (draft 9.2 m) anchored there .
On the northern coast of Hørup Hav, the Gendarmstien ends in Høruphav , a former control route on which Danish gendarmes patrolled the German-Danish border from 1920 to 1958 and controlled shipping.
History
During the conquest of Alsen by Prussian troops in the German-Danish War of 1864 , the Danish troop transports anchored in the lagoon, but then moved to the south side of the Kegnæs peninsula so as not to be cut off and enclosed by the Prussians advancing from the north. After the Prussian conquest of Höruper Lagoon and the Kegnæs peninsula was even considered the new Prussian in Höruper Haff naval port to create, but which then in Kiel has been established. Nevertheless, afterwards the area of the Flensburg Fjord prevailed as a practice area for torpedo launches , as the Kiel Fjord proved to be too small. In the years 1901/1902 the Imperial Navy built the torpedo station in Flensburg - Mürwik . The favorable conditions in the Höruper Haff also meant that the Berliner Maschinenbau AG formerly L. Schwartzkopff , which had been manufacturing torpedoes since 1876, set up its own torpedo test station with a torpedo firing system there from 1905–1907.
At the end of World War II, according to the long-standing, but of countersunk Grand Admiral Doenitz repealed on the evening of May 4, 1945 Rainbow command , six German U-boat - crews their boats on 5 May 1945 in Höruper Haff: U 37 , U 351 , U 1234 , U 2352 , U 4701 and U 4704 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ SkipperGuide.de: Høruphav
- ↑ Conquest of the island of Alsen on June 29, 1864 , in: Yearbooks for Social and Political Sciences , Volume 1, Volume 1, JC Glaser, Berlin, 1864 (pp. 66–69) (on Google.books.de)
- ↑ August Trinius: History of the Wars of Unification, 1864, 1866, 1870/71. First part: History of the war against Denmark 1964. , Hempel, Berlin, 1885 (p. 392–403) (on Google.books.de)
- ↑ Real Admiralty Councilor Koch, "Prehistory of the Kieler Werft," in Marine-Rundschau , 6th year, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, 1895, pp. 637–638 (on Google.books.de)
- ↑ Oliver Krauss: Armaments and armament testing in German naval history with special consideration of the Torpedoversuchsanstalt (TVA) , dissertation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 2006 (pp. 85–86) (PDF 13.5 MB)
- ↑ Fig. 3: View of the torpedo firing range at Höruphaff on the island of Alsen , In: Das deutsche Eisenbahnwesen der Gegenwart , Volume 2, Verlag Reimar Hobbing, Berlin, 1911, pp. 138–143, (on schwartzkopff-wildau.de)
- ^ Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart: 1945 - May
